On 17/08/11 15:00, Gordan Bobic wrote: > Marvell is pretty good. Whether that is through Marvell's contribution > or not I don't know, but in terms of what the end user gets to work > with, it's seldom matched and hard to beat.
They are definitely better than some, but OTOH, they don't appear to release any technical documentation at all without going through a stupid NDA process, and I would summarise my recent dealings Marvell regarding their AHCI SATA controllers like this: me> Your hardware doesn't seem to work under these reproducible circumstances marvell> You must be doing something wrong me> Here's a load more evidence marvell> [silence] me> Hello? libata maintainer> Is this broken or what, because it looks broken? Should we disable this functionality on your controllers? marvell> [silence] They also only seem to release errata info very quietly and only under NDA. WTF? Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e4ce45f.8080...@seoss.co.uk
